Silvio Berlusconi wins Italy election

UK Telegraph ^ | April 14 2008 | Malcolm Moore

[P.O.E.]

The people have spoken.

You’d think from reading the papers that “the world” hates the US. I always distrust what I read in the foreign press, just like I do about the leftist MSM here in the states.

[Gondring]

Yep. He said that a vote for the conservative candidate was a vote for the left. Sounds like a lot of McCain FReepers.

[mimaw]

Plastic surgery.

[bill1952]

>and we get stuck with McCain? And THAT'S if we are lucky.

You know something is deeply wrong when those two words; "McCain" and "lucky" are even mentioned in the same paragraph together.

I wish that was a joke ...

[Dog]

Very good news Bah...

[xtinct]

Italians always did have more common sense than much of Europe especially more than France, Germany, and Spain.

[BitBucket]

Excellent. The man tells the world that conservative women are more beautiful than the liberal hags and wins the election. Another death blow for political correctness.

Don't forget, this is the same Silvio Berlusconi who after 9/11 said the west should conquer the middle east because our culture is better than theirs. I don't think this guy has ever heard of political correctness.

[ConservativeTerrapin]

Italy ping!

[pissant]

Too bad the italian participation in that endeavor did not match his rhetoric.

[facedown]

Good deal.

[DogBarkTree]

First Sarkozy then Berlusconi. Could it be that Europe is be growing a pair?

[1035rep]

Woo hoo! Thanks Italy!

[1035rep]

I like this guy.

[hawkboy]

It’s the olive oil, the wine, and the women.

Not necessarily in that order...

[Enchante]

He is wonderfully un-PC but he did not (so far as I ever saw) call for invading lots of countries...... this is what he said two weeks after 9/11, on 9/25/01:

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“We must be aware of the superiority of our civilisation, a system that has guaranteed well-being, respect for human rights and - in contrast with Islamic countries - respect for religious and political rights, a system that has as its value understanding of diversity and tolerance.”

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1565664.stm

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[Just that was enough to bring denunciations from the President of the EU and the usual ranting idiots all over the left claiming that he was calling for a war of civilizations, etc.]

[Cacique]

ping

[TNCMAXQ]

Is it just me or is the news downplaying this a little? I suspect if Prodi had been reelected there would have been screaming headlines.

[Matchett-PI]

bttt

[cookcounty]

Berlusconi!! Who supported our going into Iraq ---with troops!!!

[RussP]

Now if only they would start reproducing.